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It’s summertime, and the livin’ is easy for many young Americans—unless, that is, they’re not working, not in school and feeling incredibly anxious about looking lazy.

As it turns out, they’re not alone. Young adults ages 20 to 24 are more likely to be neither working nor enrolled in school than their counterparts two decades ago, according to a wide-ranging report on U.S. youth by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, which compiles numbers from 22 federal-government agencies. Read More »

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